The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 25, 1934, Page 4

Page 4 Martel Resor In Fight on By a Worker Correspond dent Di DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1934 FORD ENFORCES SLAVE CONDITIONS ON RUBBER PLANTATION to Slander Workers’ Bill aving charges preferred agains in his own local, which were practically lanughed e local of which Kroon is sec- y is one of the ‘gest in the and the president of this local also a delegate to the above committee for Unemploy- ance and Relief. The rge enough to have seven- | . company will then be able to lower _he could ever conceive the idea that! in the Pennsylvania Children’s Aid teen delegates to the Central Body,! all of whom threatened to withdraw | when Kroon was denied a seat (he} having been officially elected by his | local to represent them in the cen- tral Body). | Martel, like Green, would like to} expel Kroon for fighting for non- contributory unemployment insur-j an but in some cases these} crooked gentlemen have to draw in| their horns and be content with} hoodwinking the rank and file | who was re- office in a local | | Secretary of the De t Committee, | WAS ELECTED SECRETARY OF HIS LOCAL UNION LAST JAN URAY WITHOUT OPPOSITION ffice. He was NOT| through such misleading sheets as} the Central Labor | Labor, in connivance with the rail-| state-| labor-misleader, who have also} part in sabotaging un-/} employment insurance and old age/ in| pensions Helps CutPay _ Worker Aids | 77) . | In Gary Mill) Red Builder | ” By a Steel Worker Correspondent | By a Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind—Fellow steel work-| WASHINGTON, D. C.—A worker ess t . ye: he Navy Yard in Washington s, t does it mean to have com-| from ti 3 a ‘saved one of the Red Builders here | | from arrest For the past few months the | ke the coke plant as an ex~-| Daily Worker has been sold at the! mea to have! Yard with increasing success. About these px Each| a week ago our “Yard Worker” | job ther ged separately.) came out, and thoroughly exposed | A few jobs were raised, others cut| certain poisonings which occurred | and the rest left as they were. | at the Yard, because of the “econo- | y : ‘ | my” being practised in the Yard at The company 1s pee | to Go| the expense of the workers natu-| the same in all ican the| Tally. This activity hasn't made the course, this scheme will benefit the| }9.. in the Yard or the police] company more than the men. pany tools make adjustments on our Ta! ample of what it The like us any better, but it has won my” being practised in th Yard. Last Wednesday, a cop came to| Red Builder Dickian and took his “Dailies” away from him. He start- ed asking him all kinds of ques- all the wages. What we should do is fight against this wage adjust- ment and wage cutting scheme. The company is still trying to cram the company union down the | tions about where he was born, etc workers’ throats. In most depart- | “ esas afte th e z wane | and began threatening to arrest ments, the company union Tepresen- | him. About this time a worker came Sor bie sists een 2 EY out from the Yard and walked up ; uting the “new plan” of em-| +5 Comrade Dickian for a copy of ployee representation. They are} the “Daily.” Sensing the situation, he immediately walked up to the trying to spice up the spoiled meat | and serve it to us again. cop and demanded that he be sold | Well, all the doctoring in the|a “Daily.” When told that it was world won't make it smell any bet-| “Red” literature, he insisted that ter than it does. The only way to|the “Daily” could be sold just the} fight this company union is to fight same as any capitalist newspaper. | for the right to join a genuine trade) After arguing a while, with the! unicn, where we should endeavor to| worker entirely on the offensive and | get it under the control of the rank | while quite a large crowd of work- and file. We have to push aside| ers gathered, Dickian was given| people like Mallinson, Smith, Ker-| back the “Dailies” of which he sold | ton Crosby and Johnston. | quite a number of copies. . Negro Replies to Hearst on Race By a Worker Correspondent | NEWARK, N. J.—Well, I must ad- | is stirring up racial difference. mit that I thought the last thing} I will tell you some things that that the Hon. William Randolph| happened in my life that the Com- Hearst would accuse the Communist | munists didn’t have to tell me Party of was alienating the affec- | about. tions of the Negro people. | I can not see for the life of me| by w Dec. 16 said Communist propaganda Childhood Experiences In the first place I was one of hat twist of the human mind/ the first poor unfortunates to be put we ever had any love for the white! Society at the age of 7. I was bound | man. The only hatred he (the/ vat, that means slavery, until the white man) should have for us is|age of 21 in which time I was to that we gave him all we had and/ work for my board and clothes. I} pretty near everything that he has.| ran away a couple of times, but they I don’t want to hog all the credit| caught me and brought me back, for my people but I think that it is} and whipped me same as they did | of work in half the time we did last | chines in the department and the | | bench as | doesn’t know anything. | that require clarification. ~ times of jim-crowing, segregating, * put even that did not save him. All a fact that we have furnished about | 95 per cent of the leading men and | women for the lynching bees that) are so fashionable in the South. The fact of the matter is that I myself as far as I was concerned did not think there was an honest white man in the United States. I got trimmed in every deal I went in with him from the cradle up till the present time and I am 53 years old now and still going through the same process. This was my state of mind previ- ous to 1934, but since then I have found honest white people, people that I can trust, but I only found them in that much hated Commu- nist Party. ‘There are some exceptions. There may be a few white people that would show a colored man some consideration, but this is difficult as long as we have the popular pas- brow beating, bull dozing, robbing, | exploiting and last but not least that honorable crime of lynching which the crime commission so dutifully neglected to mention in} their war on crime. Under these conditions it is very unwise for a white man to show) anything for a colored man but| contempt at the least. Otherwise, he is dead politically and socially. Elections in Jersey We had a very interesting case here in Jersey in the last election. Governor Moore, after sending a colored man back to that Georgia Hell of a chain gang, was duly elected while Senator Keene, who at one time favored an anti-lynch bill that was very favorable to the colored man, was defeated. He had} later retracted that bill, said it was} too drastic but did not say for whom, the lyncher or the lynchee. He said he was backing, I think it was, the Costigan and Wagner Bill, that happened after the Literary | Digest of last winter quoted the} South as having their eye on Sen- ator Keene on the strength of his anti-lynch bill. I ask you, is it an ccident that he did not get the ae votes? to get back to where we The Sunday American: of the slaves. At first I helped the madam who was one of those lovable ladies from the South, who was always ex- plaining to me the inferiority of the colored race, and how they treated the slaves in the South, which was very inspiring to me. Well, I stood her as long as I could, and then I rebelled. She said I was sassy and ungrateful. Then the boss put me to grinding feed in the mill at the age of eleven. He had me running the mill till 8 and 4 o'clock in the morning. That saved him from hir- ing a man. All this time I was supposed to go to school three months a year, but there was no- body to check up on the boss. Well, I was rescued from that mess by mother. She put me to work for wages at the age of 15 on| a farm for the magnificent sum of $5 per month, which pay neither I nor my mother ever did get. chased me away with a revolver. | When I went after it, the boss | These are a few of my childhood | experiences in free America, Since I have grown up they have refused to serve me in a fifteen-cent hash house in New York. They also told me in 1907 that it would cost me a dollar for a ten-cent glass of whiskey, threw me out of a theatre because I wanted to sit downstairs. As a union man in the American Federation of Labor, I had a bunch of white man offer to pay my way back to Camden, N. J., rather than let me work. All of these things happened to me because I was a loyal colored American that did not claim any exemption in 1917, who would have gladly given his life for America although he knew that the cause was unjust. No, Mr. Hearst, I do not agree with you. You should indict the Democratic and Republican Parties, the parties that have always allowed these things to go on, and still up- | hold them. Speaking for myself, I think more | of the white man since 1934 than I did in the whole previous 52 years of my life. In the Commu- nist Party I have found some real white friends whom I can trust. Scrap Heap Is Reward By a Steel Worker Correspondent GARY, Ind. — “Old Man Mike,” who worked in the locomotive shop of the Illinois Steel Company for over twenty years, recently had his} eye put out. One would think that after such a long record with the company they would provide for him. But, the bosses say no! Men's lives mean nothing to the greedy stock holders and bosses. “Old Man Mike” was permanently laid off. Double Tempo Of Production In Otis Plant By a Metal Worker Correspondent YONKERS, N. Y—In the Otis Elevator shops here the speed up is getting to be something fierce. In the tool room where I work we have to get out the same amount year. This goes for all the ma-| well. The boys on the| bench are wondering when they are going to get back that 10 per cent} wage cut they got last year. With prices going up the way they are the rest of us could stand a raise, | too. ‘There are 32 men working in the tool room with 1 department boss, 2 straw bosses, and 3 efficiency men, making 1 “watcher” to every 5 workers. It makes you feel like a race horse with so many people standing around with stop-watches. ‘They even put the clock on us when we are setting up jobs or grinding tools. In the press room they only give you 14 minutes for setting dies. Old man Jack Moore is supposed to be the tool room foreman. The only reason he keeps the job is be- cause he is in thick with Rivers the plant superintendent. We call him “Sitting Bull” because he doesn't know anything about the depart- ment, If you start asking him ques- tions, he hollers all over the place so that you won't find out that he They’ve been selling Unemploy- ment Insurance Reviews in front of the gates. We sure would like to see the Washington Congress go over big and are raising money to send a delegate from our depart- ment. We figure that if we fight with the unemployed for Unem- ployment Insurance they'll fight with us when we go on strike. Be- sides that, nowadays you can’t tell who is going to be laid off next, and none of us like the idea of bucking the Yonkers Relief Buro just be- cause we can’t get work. We've been signing up for the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and getting subscriptions for the Steel & Metal Worker. Any- body working in Otis’ that reads this should get in touch with Local 311, 92 Waverly St., Yonkers, Incitement Editor's note: The above letter is @ fine picture of the oppression and exploitation that the Negro people in this country have to undergo. Still, there are certain features of it The terror and hatred directed against the Negro people is not a re- | sult of any “natural” inclination on on the part of the whites, It is a hatred that is fostered and culti- vated by a certain section of the white population in the interests of that section—the white capitalists and large landowners. They foster the division between the Negro and white workers because through it they can maintain their super-rob- bery of the Negro people and the exploitation of both the Negro and the white workers, and keep the workers frem uniting in a struggle for better conditions, This must be borne in mind. The hatred of the Negro people must not be directed against ALL whites, but together with the white workers, it must be directed against the white ruling class, the enemy of the entire work- ing class, Negro and white. It must be frankly admitted that great sections of the white toilers have been taken in by the poison Propaganda of the white rulers through the schools, press, movies, radio and pulpit. The Communist Party is the only party that con- ducts a serious and consistent fight against this poison in the ranks of the white workers. It has made great headway in this fight, and has succeeded even in the South to raise the banner of joint struggle of Ne- gro and white toilers against the bosses and rich landlords. They have gene even further than that, and have all over the world involved millions of white workers in the struggle against lynching and op- pression of the Negro people. They do this not on the grounds of “pure” humanitarianism, but be- cause they realize that this unity is necessary in the struggles of the working class for better conditions and the ultimate overthrow of the present system of robbery and op- pression. The above letter was written by a Negro worker who is but one month in the Communist Party, Thousands like him have come over to the ranks of the revolutionary move- ment with the same misgivings, the same mistrust of the white workers. This is but a natural outcome of the century-old oppression and dis- crimination the Negro people have undergone in this country. It places upon the shoulders of the white class conscious workers the great responsibility of winning the con- fidence of these Negro workers on the basis of a determined struggle for Negro rights, and thus win them over as fighters in the ranks of the great revolutionary army struggling pees ck rt: de eodtiows Aleshal to Help Cut Natives’ Pay to 12 Cents a Day French explorers in the interior of Africa discovered that the slave trade still exists. Here is a group of slaves and slave traders which they found and pictured. This is in the domain of Firestone and is on par with that of Ford in Brazil, By a Marine Worker Correspondent I have read Mike Gold’s column in the Daily Worker in reference to Henry Ford’s plantation at the Amazon River. This is something that I am per- sonally versed in, and although I have not been up to the plantation, yet I can say that I know something about the conditions that prevail there. | I was on the beach at the Port of | Para, having been left behind from a ship, and there I became aquainted with some of the “philan- throphies” of Ford and his famous plantation, There are some Americans on the beach down there, and there are some of Ford's labor agents always around looking for anybody that could care to work on his rubber fields. Now conditions in Para are not so good for the natives, as they are ruthlessley exploited by the better class Portuguese and the Catholic Church keeps then sub- missive, but believe me there are none that would care to go to the plantations up the river. I spoke to many fellows who had come down from there, and al- though Ford gives the “white man” a break by giving him an easy job, yet the jungle conditions are such that people would rather starve than take a chance of the fever and the primitive conditions that exist there. As far as the natives go (they are mostly Indians and some Ne- groes) the conditions are such that it would be suicidal for them to take the job so Ford has to rely on the native labor that he can get in the jungles. When Ford started off he erected habitable shacks and gave the workers 10 Milreas per day (Milrea about 6 cents) and this was about the average pay for a laborer in Para. However, with the schem-| ing of his efficiency experts and by collecting the most primitive class of laborers, and by the sly introduc- tion of that most infamous of all South American drinks (Caxiax) he began to justify himself with ruth- lessly cutting down the pay to 2 Milreas per day (or 12 cents) and cut out the so-called modern con- ditions, Two years ago when I left Para the conditions were such and there was no native that would leave the lousy conditions of the cities to work in his slave plantations. From the accounts that I received when in Para, the place was something like the conditions that existed in the Red Rubber districts of the Belgium Congo, and no matter how low a native was in the adobe shacks in the city he would not leave for the horrors of the rubber fields. The only “modern conditions” that were left was for the “white man” that was sent out from the | States, and the occasional “white man” that the Ford agent got from Para. The pay that they were of- fering for white help who formed the foreman class was 20 Milreas per day, and if you think that living in the jungles with fever and the abnormal conditions that exist there is fair wages then I can say that the Americans and English that were on the beach in the coast cities did not. These plantations are right on the Equator, the heat being oppressive, the death toll high, and the cost of imported ar- ticles (which include practically everything for use) is also high. So, unless the conditions have im- proved- during the past two years I think that you have given too good an account of the Fordlandia. Even the American Counsul there at the time did not advise any Amer- ican or other white to take the jobs, and the only Americans that he can get to stay in his horrors are the ones that are sent out from Detroit on contract. Most all of the rubber trees there were of the wild type and were growing in a hap- hazard manner, and at the time I am referring to, Ford was replant- ing them in symmetrical rows, and as you remark they take some years before they mature, The people in Para think that he was stung in the purchase, as the English (controlled by the Booth SS Co.) gave up the production of rubber in favor of the. Malay Straits. A remarkable thing is that the Japanese turned down the offer some years before, why I cannot say; in fact the Japanese were al- lowed open immigration to the Amazon Valley and the “coloniza- tion” project flopped. So you can figure if the Japanese did not care to exploit the Amazon and its rubber possibilities and the English moved their rubber activi- ties to the Malay and Borneo the project was not very workable, and with the idea that the people in Para do not think much of it, I think that Ford got a white ele- phant. I may mention that the conces- sions are given free to any enter- prise on some long term basis, the Brazilian Government evidently thinking that the opening of the country is worth it. The territory is virgin, unmapped, and unexplored; it abounds with wild life, is feverish and dangerous to the health of Europeans and Americans, and is virtually the gift of anybody who cares to exploit it. How can you get more relief? The Daily Worker tells you how! Read the Daily Worker regularly. It is the paper that fights for you! A. A. Member Elected in Co. Union Election. By a Steel Worker Correspondent STEUBENVILLE, Ohio. — A week | ago we had the company union elec- tions and we did a fairly good job of it. We elected one member of the| A. A. on the representative com- mittee. One of the old set was re- elected after doing some tall prom- ising that he will carry out our in- structions, or in plain English he} will fight for our demands just as we ask him to do. He already did a good thing for us, by making the company put up a door so as to keep out the draft.on us. The other one that was elected is a real stool pigeon. He also was) elected on the promise that he will try to get the tonnage rate back for us. I have no illusion about this committee, but by having one of the A. A. members on it after all the company did to keep the workers from voting for him, and trying to count him out of winning the election, he surely will be able} to do some good work for us. After the other two had pledged to do so much for us, we sure will call on them to carry these promises out. I also want to report that the A. A. has started its organization drive in Weirton, W. Va. and Steu- benville, Ohio. Their meeting in Steubenville was attended by about fourty to fifty workers. The work- ers are not flocking like they did in 1933. There is every possibility of re- organizing the workers just as soon as they see some action from the union. If they see that it really means to organize them and to get them something, they will join. the union. I, myself, expect to do some organizing too. NOTE: We publish letters from steel, metal and auto workers every | Tuesday. We urge workers in these industries to write us of their conditions and their efforts to organize, Please get these Jet- | ters to us by Saturday of each to liberate ALL the toilers from the yoke of capitalism, week, Letters from Our Readers A DROUGHT OF LITERATURE New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: I would like you to publish this interesting excerpt of a letter from South Bend, Indiana: “Dear F.: “Although South Bend {s my! home town and I have been here already for three weeks, I find I have become a complete stranger during almost ten years of absence, “Thank you very much for send- ing me the Daily Worker. I have surely missed it. I have asked~all my relatives, friends and the news} stands but nobody, although many | workers and farmers live here, could tell me where I could get it and} many never heard of it. I suspect that the local news stands here are bribed not to sell the Daily Worker, because, you know, there are people here who have good reason to hide the truth from the working class, names such as Studebaker, Notre Dame, defaulted banks, etc., who are losing their reputation among work- ers and farmers. “Today I visited L. and asked him about the Daily Worker. He too claimed he had never heard of a paper by that name, but when we talked a while and I told him about the terrible Reds in this country, he said, ‘Yes, the Reds seem to be the only people who tell no lies, I be- lieve in their program. “This shows us again, despite all foul tricks and suppression of workers’ literature in the United States, how deep the faith that the Communist Party will lead the masses is rootde in the American working class. “It would not be a bad idea to flood this town with revolutionary literature. Back numbers of maga- zines, such as Soviet Russia Today, Labor Defender, etc., which some- times lie idle in some corners, should be sent here and distributed among workers and farmers. This surely would help a great deal in | building a Soviet America.” “Fw” | TURN WORDS INTO DEEDS! Youngstown, Ohio. Dear Comrade Editor: Although I have been a sym- pathizer of the Communist Party for two years and recently joined the Y. C. L., I have just begun to read the Daily Worker regularly. Before now I had read various sin- gle articles in scattered issues. To- night I read almost word for word the two issues that I have received on my subscription. I am eyen more glad and thrilled by this paper than I thought I would be. It has increased, if that were possible, my sincere enthusiasm for the moye- ment. I shall support the Communist Party and a Soviet America as long as I live, and read the Daily Worker as long as I can afford it or get hold of it in any way. I congratulate you upon your fine paper. FR. |THE MINIONS OF KING FORD Melvindale, Mich. Dear Comrade Editor: On account of work in United Automobile Workers Union, and since my mail comes through Dear- born, it is imperative that my sub- scription stop at once. My wife and I will miss the con- venience of getting our Daily Worker by mail, but we have three children in our home and the Ford agents in the U. A. W. U. are after those of us who read the “Daily.” CO; P: Here Is My Dollar To Put Drive Over the Top NAME ADDRESS AMOUNT $s. Tear off and mail immediately to DAILY WORKER 50 EAST 13th St. New York, N. ¥. WORKER S HEALTH Conducted by the Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board (The Doctors on the Medical Advisory Board do not Advertise) Courts of Capitalism and Advertised Products lomrade E. L. writes in as fol- lows:—‘‘I read your column in the Daily Worker every day and I would like some information, through your Health Column, on the reducing tablet known as “Mormola.” Will you please let me know whether they are effective in any way?” . . + he following, we believe, is in- structive in showing how the courts will protect the rights of Manufacturers t6 flood the public with harmful products on the grounds of free competition in trade. The court's argument was that if a substance was harmful and it was, suppressed, therefore this would prove a great help to all the other harmful products that were not suppressed. Therefore, in- stead of suppressing them all, the | ‘fair thing’ to do was to suppress | none of them. 1e connection with this nostrum, we quote from the recent book “Skin Deep,” by M. C. Phillips, which one should be able to obtain from the library: “The Federal Trade Commission on the findings of the hearings is- sued an order to the company (man- ufacturers of Marmola) to cease misleading advertising. This ruling was appealed to the Circuit Court and reversed on the unique ground that the product was in competi- tion either with members of the medical profession—and it was no duty of the Federal Trade Comis- sion to protect medicos from unfair competition—or that it was in com- petition with other commercially- exploited remedies for obesity. Since the latter—so reasoned the Court— were undoubtedly on the American Medical Association’s index expurga- torius with Marmola, and dis- repypable besides, it was obvious thatthe Federal Trade Commission could not give aid to products in this class by suppression of one of their shady competitors. The order against Marmola was thereby an- nulled by the Court, and the com- pany was free to continue its mis- leading advertising to the pubile— because it had no competitors, or if it had, they had no call on govern- By ANN mental protection... .. “The Supreme Court, to whom the case went finally on appeal by the government, upheld the Marmola | Company on the ground that they did not indeed have competitors and that physicians were not in competi- tion with drug manufacturers and that the Federal Trade Commission was exceeding its authority in en- deavoring to censor advertising that might injure the consumer. .... | “Despite the fact that all repute able physicians recognize the danger in the use of thyroid (used in Mar- }mola) and despite the fact that | they have stated that the uncon- trolled use of the drug has been the cause of fatal cases of poisoning; | despite the fact that only small dosages should be used, under strict- est medical supervision to observe their effects, and that thyroid, if | self-administered may cause serious | disturbance of the nervous system, | Marmola still goes on.” a, Be Lecture by Doctor Daniel Casten ‘Dp Daniel Casten will lecture un- t der the auspices of the Medical | Advisory Board on Thursday, Dec. 27th, on Venereal Diseases, Pre- vention, Cure and Significance, at. Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place at 8:30 P. M. All pro- ceeds go to the Daily Worker. Ad- | mission is 25 cents. Dr. J, Alonzo will discuss the control of this problem in the Soviet Union. Mr. Roosevelt has a kind heart. Wall Street vouches for him. Read the Daily Worker and learn the story of the happy partnership between Mr. Roosevelt and Wall Street, Become a subscriber of | the Daily Worker! Get your friends to subscribe! You know neighbors who should read the Daily Worker, Ask them to subscribe! VOLUNTEERS WANTED | Volunteer typists for the | Worker Correspondence De- | partment are needed. Interest- ing work. No previous experi- ence required. Report at the Daily Worker office, 35 East 12th Street, 8th floor, Wednes- day, Dec. 26, at 10 a.m. IN THE HOME | BARTON This “Joyous Christmas Season” HE “joyous Christmas season” to many working class women is a time when the reality of their poverty is hardest to bear. The newspapers whoop up “the spirit of giving.” The pictures of thou-~ sands of madonnas and their in- fants look down benignly on the walls of thousands of department stores throughout the country, sanctioning the biggest sales cam- paign of the year. eo he (O the men and women working in department stores, this “joyous Christmas season” is a season of the most intense exploitation. I worked, for several years during the Christmas season, in. the big- gest department store in Philadel- phia. Turmoil! Thousands of people dashing madly in all directions! Frayed nerves! Speed-up! Speed- up! Speed-up! The crowds around counters demanding attention of the girl, who at the moment, is try- ing to satisfy the demands of a dozen other women! Lengthened hours! This is a season that works havoc on the health of thousands of department store employees. This is a season of profits raining man- na-like into the coffers of depart- ment store owners. ea eae IN New York City, the employees of two department stores have come out on strike under the leadership of the Office Workers Union. The strikers are largely girls and women, The Christmas gifts given many of them have been jail sentences. There have been mass arrests every day. At Klein’s, the girls are picketing for reinstatement of 64 workers, fired for union activity. The Ohrbach demands are for 10 per cent wage increase, shorter working hours, and union recog- nition, As soon as an arrest is made, these girls re-form the picket line. They carry signs “Ohrbach’s Has Arrested 15 Workers For Fighting For The Right To Live!” “Don’t Buy At Klein’s!” “Don’t But At Ohrbach’s!” ND if there are to be gifts at Store writes “With the Christ- mas season, we, in Macy’s work eight extra hours a week. Under the N. R. A. code, for three weeks before Christmas, we work forty- eight hours a week. If this were to be paid for even at the code mini- mum of thirty five cents an hour. \it is a sizable figure—a fortune, which goes not to us who earn it, but to the already overstuffed pockets of Percy Strauss. Regularly, at the end of the Christmas season, we re- ceive a gift from Macy’s in the form of a mass lay-off, There is a defi- ite need for organization in Macy’s. Let us organize into a militant union—the Office Workers Union.” eee AND if there are to be gfts at this time of year. isn’t the best kind of gift 2 solidarity gift to these of our class who are wazing eur common fight fer “the right to live” as the Ohrbach girls’ sign phrases it? If you are able at all to give, these white collar workers, new to militant organ- t ‘ I know. | ization, would be strengthened in their fight, if you would support them, For your information, the Office Workers Union headquar- ters is at 504 Sixth Avenue, New York, N. ¥. And for the infor- mation of New Yorkers, — con- sumers and shoppers — there is picketing for you to do in front of the stores every day! Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1954 is available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 16 takes 3% yards 39-inch fabric and % | yard contrasting. Illustrated step- by-step sewing instructions ine | cluded. Send SIXTEEN CENTS (16c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address order to Daily Worker, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. Send for your copy of the ANNE ADAMS WINTER FASHION BOOK! PRICE OF BOOK SIXTEEN CENTS BUT WHEN ORDERED WITH AN ANNE ADAMS PAT- TERN IT IS ONLY TEN CENTS. TWENTY-SIX CENTS FOR BOTH